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421. summ'd. This word is explained as a technical term in falconry applied to a hawk whose feathers are fullgrown.

439. mantling. This word has a similar origin. It is used of a bird stretching one of its wings after its leg.

454. teem, bring forth. 467. libbard, leopard.

482. minims, minute objects.

597. frets, the fingering notes of a guitar. BOOK VIII.

157. This habitable, the earth. 165. inoffensive, unhindered by any obstacle; uninterrupted.

466. cordial spirits, the spirits that are inspired by the heart.

502. conscience, for the state of conscious

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438. reduc'd, in its original sense of 66 brought back again."

565. gust, enjoyment. 599. ravin, prey.

686. Estotiland, Greenland. 698. flaw, gust of wind.

703. Serraliona, i.e., Sierra Leone, in Africa.

1071. foment, nurse carefully; cherish. BOOK XI.

86. defended, forbidden.

243. Sarra, is the same as " Tyre,"
390. Paquin, is "Pekin."
433. sord, sward.

487. marasmus, a sort of phthisis.
753. bottom, i.e., vessel; ship.

835. orcs, were a kind of coarse fish. 866. listed colours, i.e., colours in stripes. BOOK XII.

146. Senir, Mount Hermon. 207. defends, forbids.

210. craze, break.

338. popular, i.e., belonging to the people. 367. carole, carol; a song.

589. i.e., This watch-tower.
629. meteorous, high in the air.

PARADISE REGAINED.
Book I.

18. The allusion, of course, is to St. John Baptist.

26. divinely warn'd, i.e., warned by a voice from heaven.

53. attending, expecting; waiting. 87. obtains, possesses; maintains.

325. pin'd, wasted.

339. stubs, short undergrowth. 385. attent, attentive.

494. scope, object; aim; purpose.

Book II.

22. Machaerus, a castle east of the Jordan. 130. frequence, used in its classic sense of แ a full gathering."

168. magnetic, i.e., magnetic instrument. 189. scapes, like "escapades," means aberrations; unwarranted adventures. 196. i.e., Alexander. 289. bottom, a low-lying glade. The word in common use in the West of England.

309. Nebaioth (Genesis xxv. 13), was the son of Ishmael.

344. gris-amber, ambergris. 349. diverted, seduced.

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356. Amalthea, the nurse of Jupiter. 360. Logres, the old name for the East of England.

Lyones, Cornwall, the kingdom of Arthur, whose knighthood is celebrated in the following line. 364. gale, in its original sense of "breeze." 401. far-fet, brought from a distance.

BOOK III.

18. conduct, military leadership. 171. kingdom, the state of kingship. 284. Persepolis, the capital of Persia under Cyrus.

285. Bactra, capital of Bactriana, a fruitful province of Persia.

286. Ecbatana, the capital of Media. 287. Hecatompylus, the city of a hundred

gates, has not been definitely identified with any modern site, but is supposed to have been in the neighbourhood of Teheran. 291. Seleucia, Nisbis, Artaxata, Teredon, Ctesiphon, were cities built by various kings who succeeded Alexander. 302. Sogdiana, a Parthian province. 316. Arachosia, Afghanistan. Candaor, Candahar. Atropatia, N. Media. 341. Angelica, a character in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

368. Maugre, in spite of.

Book IV.

59. hand, for "work of the hand."
66. turm, Latin turma, a squadron.
70. Syene, an Egyptian city.
71. Meroe, an island on the Nile.
75. Taprobane, Ceylon.

136. Peeling, ravaging.

235. evine't, conquered.

245. Attic bird, the nightingale.

253. Lyceum, the Athenian gymnasium. Stoa, the portico where Zeno discoursed. The name gave the title of Stoics to his followers. 270. fulmin'd, lightened. Latin fulmen. 335. artful, i.e., the technical terms of

art.

341. personating, publicly displaying. 427. amice, used here, not for the vestment worn round the neck at mass, but for an entire monkish habit. The amice proper is white.

457. main, whole. 564. Irassa, in Cyrene, where Hercules threw the great earth-giant Antaeus.

33. captiva, made captive.

118. diffus'd, stretched on the ground. 132. The Chalybean steel, famous throughout the world, was produced in the region south of the Black Sea. 181. Eshtaol and Zora, sea-coast towns between Joppa and Gaza.

222. motion'd, intended.

373. Appoint, probably means, in this passage, "blame," or "criticise adversely."

453. idolists, worshippers of idols. 471. blank, affright.

569. Robustious, powerful; unfettered. 701. crude, premature.

785. parle, discussion; parley.

1020. paranymph, the classical equivalent for the modern "best-man at a wedding. He used to accompany the bridegroom when he went to bring the bride home.

1075. fraught, burden; freight. 1120. brigandine, suit of mail armour. Habergeon means the same thing. 1121. vant-brace, brassets, or armour to cover the arms; greves, leggings of

armour.

1220. appellant, challenger.

1309. remark, indicate; show.

1512. Inhabitation, here used in the common Miltonic sense of "inhabited globe."

1619. cataphracts, horsemen in full panoply. 1695. villatic, Latin villaticus, belonging to the house. The "villatic fowl is the barndoor fowl.

1700. embost, in the bosk or wood. 1707. secular, endowed with the life of a generation. Here used for "a thousand years," the fabled length of life of the phoenix.

1713. Caphtor, the original land of the Philistines. "I brought the Philistines from Caphtor" (Amos ix. 7). 1755. acquist, acquisition,

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